The Vancouver Olympics in Google Earth

February 11, 2010

The 2010 Winter Olympics are upon us, and Google Earth will show you around the venues with a wide variety of excellent tools.

As part of the most recent StreetView update, Google has captured imagery from on top of Whistler, the ski resort where the Games will be taking place. The imagery was captured using the new “Street View snowmobile”. Here’s a quick video to show how it works:

The last thing to explore is the New York Times Olympic Venue map. While it doesn’t use Google Earth, it’s an impressive 3D interactive tour of the various venues, and certainly worth checking out.

About Mickey Mellen

Mickey has been using Google Earth since it was released in 2005, and has created a variety of geo-related sites including Google Earth Hacks. He runs a web design firm in Marietta, GA, where he lives with his wife and two kids.

That is not the only thing that Google did to be able to make net surfing faster. Well, they got a new broadband with a gigabyte speed. I don’t know if I want Google Broadband to work out or not. Granted, Google does offer some very competitive services. I allow that Google Broadband will probably be faster than other broadband services, and likely at prices that won’t send the average person running for payday loans for decent internet. What I object to is the fact that Google is slowly revealing itself to actually be Skynet, and will become self aware very soon and will then unleash Google Terminators upon the Earth and begin the robot apocalypse.

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